Amazon’s $2.5 Billion Cloud Outage: How an AI Glitch Broke the Internet – Again
AWS Outage “Breaks the Internet” in October 2025 Late last month, Amazon Web Services – the world’s largest cloud provider – experienced a catastrophic outage that many dubbed an “internet blackout.” The trouble began on October 19, 2025 (Monday), inside AWS’s busiest data center hub in Northern Virginia (US-East-1). According to Amazon, a “DNS resolution issue” in that region set off a chain reaction of failures techcrunch.com. In simpler terms, part of the internet’s “phone book” stopped working properly. Specifically, AWS’s internal Domain Name System (DNS) – which translates service names to network locations – suddenly couldn’t find the address
